American
archaeologist Nina Wilde and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase are back for
another heart-stopping, globe-spanning adventure in the latest New York
Times bestselling series that "raises the bar to please adventure
junkies who prefer to mainline their action" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Nina and Eddie have been thinking about taking a break to start a family. The IHA has nothing major going on at the
moment and Nina has been offered a large advance to write a book - it
might be the perfect time for a sabbatical. But those dreams are quickly dashed when the new U.N. liaison calls an emergency meeting to announce that a Viking runestone has been stolen from a Swedish museum, and that the heist was led by none other than a mole operating within the IHA
itself. Nina and Eddie are immediately on the scene, where they learn
from the museum's Norse expert, Tova Skilfinger, that the runestone
reveals the secret of how to reach Valhalla - a great hall that, according to myth, houses a god-killing poison known as eitr. Using IHA resources on top of Tova's meticulous knowledge, Nina is able to deduce the
location of the runestone - it's in Norway - but at the bottom of an
isolated lake. As the team comes closer to excavating the artifact, it
becomes increasingly obvious to Nina that Eddie knows more about the
mission than he's letting on. In fact, his connection to it is buried
deep within his past-in the dense, sweltering jungles of Vietnam - and he
knows that to find Valhalla is to unleash a grave danger upon the world. This pulse-pounding adventure will take Nina and Eddie to the vast
reaches of the earth in a race against time as they strive to prevent
rival forces from unleashing a wave of mass destruction that would
threaten the fate of humanity forever.
